“When I see youngsters at matches now, I am just so sad that television in the 1950s wasn’t like it is nowadays, so that they could actually see the Busby Babes as they really were.”
Manchester United fan Beryl Townsend, from Ardwick, is 86 years old and is not alone in holding such heartfelt memories of Matt Busby’s English champions of 1956 and 1957.
"We absolutely adored them and used to travel all over the country following them," she told us. "I feel privileged to have lived through it."
Last month, United Review invited Beryl to Old Trafford with three other supporters who also watched and cherished the Babes.